HOMILY XXL] HOMILIES ON EPHESIANS. 155 poor man and the rich man alike to accomplish. These are lessons which a man does not learn from a master, nor by art, but by means of the divine oracles. Seek not how he shall enjoy a long life here, but how he shall enjoy a bound less and endless life hereafter. Give him the great things, not the little things. Hear what Paul saith, " Bring them up in the chastening and admonition of the Lord " ; study not to make him an orator, but train him up to be a philosopher. In the want of the one there will be no harm whatever ; in the absence of the other, all the rhetoric in the world will be of no advan tage. Tempers are wanted, not talking ; charac ter, not cleverness ; deeds, not words. These gain a man the kingdom. These confer what are benefits indeed. Whet not his tongue, but cleanse his soul. I do not say this to prevent your teaching him these things, but to prevent your attending to them exclusively. Do not imagine that the monk alone stands in need of these lessons from Scripture. Of all others, the children just about to enter into the world spe cially need them. For just in the same way as the man who is always at anchor in harbor, is not the man who requires his ship to be fitted out, and who needs a pilot and a crew, but he who is always out at sea ; so is it with the man of the world and the monk. The one is entered as it were into a waveless harbor, and lives an un troubled life, and farremoved from every storm ; whilst the other is ever on the ocean, and lives out at sea in the very midst of the ocean, bat tling with billows without number. And though he may not need it himself, still he ought to be so prepared as to stop the mouths of others. 1 Thus the more distinguished he is in the present life, so much the more he stands in need of this education. If he passes his life in courts, there are many Heathens, and philosophers, and persons puffed up with the glory of this life. It is like a place full of dropsical people. Such in some sort is the court. All are, as it were, puffed up, and in a state of inflammation. And they who are not so are studying to become so. Now then reflect how vast a benefit it is,, that your son on entering there, should enter like an excellent physician, furnished with instruments which may allay every one s peculiar inflamma tion, and should go up to every one, and con verse with him, and restore the diseased body to health, applying the remedies derived from the Scriptures, and pouring forth discourses of the true philosophy. For with whom is the recluse to converse? with his wall and his ceiling? yea, or again with the wilderness and the woods ? or with the birds and the trees? He therefore has not so great need of this sort of discipline. 1 [The following part of the paragraph explains this sentence. G. A.] Still, however, he makes it his business to perfect this work, not so much with a view of disciplin ing others as himself. There is then every need of much discipline of this sort to those that are to mix in the present world, because such an one has a stronger temptation to sin than the other. And if you have a mind to understand it, he will further be a more useful person even in the world itself. For all will have a rever ence for him from these words, when they see him in the fire without being burnt, and riot desirous of power. But power he will then ob tain, when he least desires it, and will be a still higher object of respect to the king ; for it is not possible that such a character should be hid. Amongst a number of healthy persons, indeed, a healthy man will not be noticed ; but when there is one healthy man amongst a number of sick, the report will quickly spread and reach the king s ears, and he will make him ruler over many nations. Knowing then these things, " bring up your children in the chastening and admonition of the Lord." "But suppose a man is poor." Still he will be in no wise more insignificant than the man who lives in kings courts, because he is not in kings courts ; no, he will be held in admiration, and will soon gain that authority which is yielded voluntarily, and not by any compulsion. For if a set of Greeks, men worthless as they are, and dogs," by taking up that worthless philosophy of theirs, (for such the Grecian philosophy is,) or rather not itself but only its mere name, and wearing the threadbare cloak, and letting their hair grow, impress many ; how much more will he who is a true philosopher? If a false ap pearance, if a mere shadow of philosophy at first sight so catches us, what if we should love the true and pure philosophy? Will not all court it, and entrust both houses, and wives, and children, with full confidence to such men? But there is not, no, there is not such a philosopher existing now. And therefore, it is not possible to find an example of the sort. Amongst re cluses, indeed, there are such, but amongst peo ple in the world no longer. And that amongst recluses there are such, it would be possible to adduce a number of instances. However, I will mention one out of many. Ye know, doubt less, and have heard of, and some, perhaps, have also seen, the man whom I am now about to mention. I mean, the admirable Julian. This man was a rustic, in humble life, and of humble parentage, and totally unin- structed in all outward accomplishments, but full of unadorned wisdom. 3 When he came into J TptioBoAtfiaiot nvfs Kai Kvvfs. 3 St. Julian was a native of Cilicia, perhaps of Tarsus, and was martyred at ^ga: in the Dioclesian persecution. One of St. Chrysos- tom s orations is in his praise.